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However, an update on 11 August 2009 stated that the part of the deal regarding designs that originated in images from Macross had fallen through, returning the original images to Unseen status once again. As a result, art depicting the original 'Mechs could be legally used again. On 24 June 2009, Catalyst Game Labs announced that they had secured the rights to the 'Unseen' art. Catalyst Game Labs has continued this practice.

When Fantasy Productions licensed the property, these 'Unseen' images were expanded to include all art produced 'out-of-house' Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ that is, whose copyrights resided with the creators, not the company.

This led them to be termed by fans as 'the Unseen'. The anime-sourced BattleMechs continued to be referenced in-universe, but their images were no longer seen in new sourcebooks. Following the suit, FASA made the decision to use only images that they owned in future products. FASA realized that the use of licensed images made them vulnerable to lawsuits and worried that such a suit would bankrupt the company. Although Playmates was ordered to stop using the images in question, FASA received no financial compensation. Bills explained that FASA had sued Playmates over the use of images owned by FASA. In 2007, Classic BattleTech line developer Randall N. In later years, FASA abandoned these images as a result of a lawsuit brought against them by Playmates Toys and Harmony Gold over the use of said images. The rights to these images were licensed from Twentieth Century Imports (TCI). Rather than create their own original robot art, FASA decided to use already-extant designs that had originally been created for a variety of different Japanese anime, including Dougram, Crusher Joe, and Macross.

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CGL continues to hold the license to this day with the end of the MechWarrior: Dark Age miniatures game, the name of the traditional tabletop game has reverted to simply BattleTech. At that point Catalyst Game Labs (CGL) acquired the license from Topps. FanPro held the license to the original tabletop game (which they rebranded as 'Classic BattleTech') until 2007. Topps bought Wizkids in 2003, but this did not change any publishing agreements at that time. They reworked the IP to launch their MechWarrior: Dark Age collectible miniatures game, but licensed the rights to continue to publish products for the old game to FanPro (itself a subsidiary of Fantasy Productions). The name of the game was changed to BattleTech in the second edition because George Lucas and Lucasfilm claimed the rights to the term ' droid' the machines themselves were renamed BattleMechs from the second edition onward.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚С›fter FASA Corporation closed its doors in 2000, Wizkids bought the rights to the game in January 2001. The game was at first called BattleDroids. Further information: List of BattleTech gamesР В РІР‚СњР вЂ™Р’В¬hicago-based FASA Corporation's original 1984 game focused on enormous robotic, semi-humanoid battle machines battling in a science-fiction feudalistic dark age setting.